{"id":1805,"date":"2008-11-02T13:01:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T12:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1805"},"modified":"2008-11-02T19:43:50","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T18:43:50","slug":"preserving-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/11\/preserving-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Preserving journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/198\/466299158_cc6cc9b7b0.jpg?v=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Castle Howard\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/198\/466299158_cc6cc9b7b0.jpg?v=0\" title=\"Castle Howard\" class=\"alignleft frame\" width=\"200\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><span class=\"drop_cap\">L<\/span>isten hard. You too may be able to hear the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2008\/oct\/20\/dover-beach-matthew-arnold\">melancholy, long, withdrawing roar<\/a> that Sophocles heard long ago on the Aegean. <\/p>\n<p>A few years ago I did an MBA. One of my goals was to try and find a sustainable business model for something I had given my life to &#8211; television news. You&#8217;ll not be surprised to learn that it proved a rather fruitless search for a means of preservation.<\/p>\n<p>To preserve things, of course, is to change them. English country houses, once the corporate HQs of <em>ancien<\/em> agri-businesses, are now tourist traps. They are stripped of the people that made them powerful human institutions &#8211; they exist now entirely as artefacts, their waxed oak boards and grand staircases walked for the passing wonder of a wet afternoon.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Preservation preserved neither the aristocracy, nor their tenants and tradesmen, nor the servants who served them. Cherished family traditions perished. Pews in parish churches went unfilled.<\/p>\n<p>But the buildings still stand. And unconsecrated chapels still get visitors. <\/p>\n<p>So when we talk about new business models for journalism, let&#8217;s not fool ourselves. What is that we want to preserve? And what will be left at the end of the process?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen hard. You too may be able to hear the melancholy, long, withdrawing roar that Sophocles heard long ago on the Aegean. A few years ago I did an MBA. One of my goals was to try and find a sustainable business model for something I had given my life to &#8211; television news. You&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1805"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1818,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1805\/revisions\/1818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}